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Just want to thank you, the Santa Barbara Independent, for helping me decide who to vote for this year and in each election cycle. Although I’m positive about which way you will swing, I still look forward to see what you have to say. Because looking at your paper’s endorsements makes my job of voting that much easier. You see, whichever candidates or propositions The Independent endorses, yes or no votes, all I have to do is vote the opposite. Yep, that’s right. It’s quite a formidable community service you do for me, and I really do appreciate it. I mean who else can I depend on to be so consistent? As my father use to say when he would deliver products out to Isla Vista (in the 1960s and ‘70s), whenever he would see a political sign on a telephone pole or whatever, he would know who not to vote for. Thanks, dad, for the lesson in life. And again, thank you Independent for helping me out with this year’s voting decisions. I’m definitely voting a straight Republican ticket. Oops, is it okay to say straight?

The Indy was the only local publication not to endorse Dale Francisco for city council. They give him no credit for all the hard work he does and endorse the left's candidates straight down the line without exception.

Actually, without an iota of sarcasm, THANK YOU S.B. INDEPENDENT! I, for one, tremendously appreciate your well thought out explanations of your endorsements. I find the fine print on the propositions to be very dense and open to misinterpretation (on purpose?) and the literature I receive from the "pro" and "con" factions compelling. I turn to your fine paper and several other trusted sources to help me make sense of it all!

On a somewhat related note, I was irked to see a very right leaning paper filling up your SB Independent racks in the cafe at Lazy Acres a week or so before the election. Their endorsements were all opposite to yours. I found it quite ballsy of them to use your racks. I hope they didn't take it upon themselves to relieve the racks of your publication so they could place their rag on YOUR racks.